Table 2.

Association of Medicare Program Type with Health Care Access and Utilization Among Adults Age ≥65 Years with Cardiovascular Disease^{* †}

	Medicare Advantage (%)	Traditional Medicare (%)	Unadjusted OR (95% CI)	Adjusted OR (95% CI) §
Health Care Access
Is there a place that you usually go if you are sick and need health care? ‡	93.5	88.9	1.79 (1.22, 2.63)	1.99 (1.33, 2.98)
Have you had a doctor visit within the last year?	98.6	98.7	0.90 (0.39, 2.05)	0.98 (0.44, 2.20)
Have you had your blood pressure checked within the last year?	99.0	99.3	0.59 (0.22, 1.60)	0.66 (0.25, 1.76)
Have you had your cholesterol checked within the last year?	94.8	96.2	0.73 (0.45, 1.19)	0.71 (0.44, 1.13)
Have you had your blood sugar checked within the last year?	94.5	94.9	0.92 (0.59, 1.45)	0.81 (0.53, 1.23)
Acute Care Utilization
Have you visited an urgent care clinic ≥ 2 times in the last year?	3.1	4.1	0.74 (0.39, 1.40)	0.69 (0.37, 1.28)
Have you visited an emergency department in the last year?	39.2	38.1	1.05 (0.84, 1.30)	1.03 (0.82, 1.29)
Have you had an overnight hospital stay in the last year?	29.7	29.0	1.03 (0.81, 1.32)	1.01 (0.79, 1.30)

^*Percentages represent proportion of respondents answering ‘yes’

^†For each outcome, responses of “Refused”, “Not ascertained”, or “Don’t know” were set to missing; adults with a missing response were excluded from the analysis of the respective outcome (<1% across all outcomes except for cholesterol [2.1%], blood sugar check [3.4%])

^‡Individuals were identified as not having a usual source of care if they reported that they did not have a usual place to go when they are sick or if they identified an urgent care center or hospital emergency room as their usual source of care

^§Models were adjusted for age, gender, race/ethnicity, educational attainment, household income, urban-rural status, and US region